Lei Xu, sings role of 'Diane', rehearses a jail scene in the opera "Bound", it's the story of a Vietnamese-American high school student struggling to reconcile her family's past and present, will be performed three times this week. ( Mayra Beltran / Houston Chronicle )

Lei Xu, sings role of 'Diane', rehearses a jail scene in the opera...

The poet and the composer needed a subject for an opera commission, and they found it in the news.

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